Former Houston director of basketball operations Michael Young is suing the university to get out of what he calls a no-work job that violates NCAA rules, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Young may be seeking the ruling so that his son, Joseph, who recently transferred from Houston to Oregon following his father’s reassignment in the athletic program, can be ruled immediately eligible and play in the upcoming 2013-14 campaign.

Joseph Young is the son of Michael Young, who starred at Houston as part of Phi Slama Jama. (AP Photo)

"So that Michael will not be part of a fraud for one second," attorney Reginald McKamie told the newspaper. "We want the contract rescinded from the outset so there is no doubt in anybody's mind that Michael has not engaged in any fraud of the NCAA rules or defrauding Texas taxpayers of any money."

Michael Young told the newspaper that a Houston athletics official told him his contract would be in place for as long as son was enrolled at the school, and his job would require him to do community relations work from home. Young had been the school's director of basketball operation prior to being reassigned this past May. Young was also asked to remove all his belongings from his on-campus office, but he did sign his contract May 30, the day his prior deal ran out. Shortly afterward, he began having second thoughts about his new role and has not accepted payment from the school on his new pact that pays him over $64,000 annually.

Taking the new job might be a violation of NCAA rules and make Joseph Young permanently ineligible at Houston because of bylaw 11.4.2, which states, “In men’s basketball, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete’s anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the prospective student-athlete’s actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ (or enter into a contract for future employment with) an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position or in a strength and conditioning staff position.”

Getting a new contract and a new position would seem to be an NCAA violation. But if that argument somehow fails, having a court rescind the contract would help Young get his son immediately eligible at Oregon. No matter what, one of the scenarios has to happen so that Young can show he and his family incurred financial hardship.

As for Oregon, getting Joseph Young immediately eligible would mean adding a player who averaged 18.0 points a game into their lineup.

The University of Houston says “practice is to not comment on pending litigation, however, the University is looking forward to vigorously defending its actions," the school said in a statement to the Chronicle.